Goodbye, my friends

By Avery, Age 9

It all started out looking like a perfectly normal day. I was driven to school, I finished my homework, and was ready for the day. As I took my first step into my classroom, I could tell everyone was buzzing about something. When I walked in the first thing someone said to me was, “Have you heard about covid-nineteen?” My parents told me nothing about it, so I just went with it. Once we all quieted down, our teacher told us that a new virus had struck and we had to go on a complete lockdown for two weeks at the most. So we were asked if we wanted to take our things from our desk, home. I opted not to,(big mistake!). So when the school bell rang, I grabbed my headphones, charger, and left school, saying goodbye to my friends. Thinking I’d see them soon. Little did I know, that would be the last time I saw them for a while…